MFC Fundamentals

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MFC's strong suit is its fundamental programming support for Microsoft Windows.

In This Section

Frame Windows

Documents

Views of Documents

Multiple Views

Special View Types, such as scroll views and form views

Dialog Boxes and Property Sheets

Windows Common Controls

Mapping Windows Messages to handler functions

Toolbars and Control Bars

Printing and Print Preview

Serialization of data to and from files and other media

Device Contexts and GDI Drawing Objects

Exception Handling in MFC

Collections of data objects

Memory Diagnostics

Strings, Rectangles, and Points

Date and Time

CArchive Tasks

Files in MFC

HTML Help: Context-Sensitive Help for Your Programs

See Also

Other Resources

MFC Overview